Wouldn't it also depend on the diet of the patient? Certain patients can't eat certain foods due to surgery, treatment, or allergies. Take my mom for instance, when she's in the hospital she can't eat meat or anything with excess oil or fat.
The hospital I was in not too long ago had awesome food! Except if you were on a liquid diet post op, which I was, in which case you got chicken broth, decaf coffee, decaf iced tea, and jello. Seeing the people pushing carts of actual food down the hall past my room was torture.
Jello is amazing and I love it! After have nothing to eat after 4 pm the day before surgery and nothing really solid to eat in the hospital for 3 days afterward made me hateful even toward that jiggly fabulousness though.
From my history with the hospital, every time I stayed there they would give me saltless boiled chicken and mush peas. it was horrible and i had to eat that stuff for a month ;-;
Macaroons are coconutty cookies shaped like little rocks/mountains, they taste moist and crumbly. Macarons are crunchy/soft shells with tons of colour options and different fillings. I was in Belgian hospitals four times the last two years, that is not standard food. Standard food here is 'some...maybe...if you're awake...'
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